Chris Wood, CTO - Storage & Data Management Practice, Sun Microsystems

Leighton C. “Chris” Wood, Director and Chief Technology Officer for Sun’s Global Storage Practice - is responsible for identifying and delivering the best technologies and solutions available that can address our customer’s complex data management problems. Prior to that, Mr. Wood was the Director of Technical Sales and Marketing - Global Network Storage Sales, and was responsible for delivering technical support, education and interface into Network Storage product development as well as architecting solutions to Sun’s customers storage management problems. He joined the Network Storage Division (NWS) of Sun Microsystems when MaxStrat was acquired by Sun early in 1999.

At MaxStrat, Mr. Wood, VP of Sales and Marketing, was responsible for worldwide sales, technical support and the development of key OEM and strategic alliances with major systems houses and integrators. Before joining MaxStrat, Mr. Wood was the Director of Open Systems Architecture for the Storage Systems Division (SSD) of IBM. Prior to that, Mr. Wood held numerous jobs at IBM in OEM sales, product development and support; primarily in the networking area.

Mr. Wood graduated from Union College, Schenectady NY in 1970 with degrees in Economics and Electrical Engineering. He currently holds three patents in the area of RAID design and very large data object storage architecture and is a member of the Executive Board of the IEEE Mass Storage Technical Committee (MSTC), SNIA Data Management Forum as well as numerous other professional organizations.